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Sunday, November 08, 2009

want.

I hesitate to say need. :P But...I SERIOUSLY WANT THIS:

Back view:And it's even by one of my favorite Project Runway alums, Jillian Lewis.

Beyonce first sported it in May:

And I found another view online (from Celebrity Fashion Tips) that has a good view of the lining & ruffle construction. Yay! The trench is fully lined, and the "peplum" has the ruffle sandwiched between outer/inner coat. The ruffle appears to be of the circular flounce variety (I think if you click the image you'll get a large enough view to see this):

With all the trench patterns BWOF cranks out, there has to be one with a peplum, or at least a seam...right? It's almost trench meets riding jacket in the back. Hmmm. This one will require some thought.

Super great coat! I think it would be easy to copy-if you think about it in terms of two pieces joined together. The top part looks like Burda jackets 9/09 #103 or 8/09 #119, which could be modified to look like this one. The bottom part looks like a skirt. The back looks like an 8-gored skirt with each gore much wider on the bottom than the top to create a circle skirt effect. The front looks like triangle. A few layers of ruffle underneath and you are good to go. I think I just talked myself into making one!!!

Do you have issue 5/2007? The "plus size" riding coat looks like it would be pretty adaptable... you'd have to create a lining, but I think you could do that with the original pattern pieces. The only thing is that this pattern is truly a riding coat so it's single-breasted not double-breasted. Depends on which aspects of the original you're most interested in, if you need the trench coat part then I think Arlene's idea is good.